Giving out the best of you and getting the best possible result has become indispensable. If what you’re producing is no more than average, your audience will find a better alternative with no effort.

But you also compete with the best professionals, and that is also limitless. Nowadays, the result of your work can reach an enormous audience, almost limitless. And it makes it really hard to finish well-done jobs.ĭeep work can provide great value to your career, and undoubtedly helps you distinguish yourself from other professionals that are more concerned about tweeting 20 times a day than producing genuine, high-quality work.

Some factors of our current economic and technological reality, such as the omnipresence of social networks and permanent access to them from mobile phones and network connected computers, are fragmenting our attention into small portions.

Ironically, modern knowledge workers are increasingly compelled to do less deep work and more shallow work. These efforts tend not to create much new new value in the world and are easy to replicate.” On the other hand, shallow work refers to “noncognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate”. If you, as myself, are too a knowledge worker that regularly needs to work a lot of hours really focused in one specific task, not only to finish it, but also to get the highest possible quality result, I recommend you to read this book.Ĭal Newport defines deep work as those “professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. Recently I’ve been reading the book Deep Work, by Cal Newport.

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